# Remote Access ### Step 1 - Sign up for a Tailscale account {% embed url="" %} Tailscale signup link (Click on this link) {% endembed %} 1. Follow the sign-up instructions ### Step 2 - Install Tailscale on your laptop Follow the installation instructions from the Tailscale website ### Step 3 - Install Tailscale on you WLAN Pi {% hint style="success" %} Whenever instructions reference 'a terminal window' we mean terminal from within Cockpit! {% endhint %} 1. Bring up your terminal window 2. Install Tailscale on your WLAN Pi\\ ``` curl -fsSL https://tailscale.com/install.sh | sh ``` you will be prompted to enter your password\\ 3. Log in to start using Tailscale by running command:\\ ``` sudo tailscale up ``` 4. Copy and paste the authentication URL into a new browser window 5. Authorise again 6. You will get the message `success` in your terminal window The Tailscale client is now installed on both your laptop and your WLAN Pi! You should have local IP connectivity between your 2x devices via a Tailscale VPN tunnel. ### Step 4 - Connected Devices 1. Execute the following command in your terminal window\\ ``` tailscale ? ``` This will reveal all the available Tailscale commands 2. View the devices currently connected to your Tailscale 'Node'\\ ``` tailscale status ``` ### Step 5 - Test local IP connectivity From the list of connected devices, you will see the Tailscale IP address for each device From your WLAN Pi try to ping your laptop 'Tailscale IP address' {% hint style="info" %} Alternatively you can quickly 'access' (copy to clipboard) the device IP addresses using the Tailscale client for Windows / macOS {% endhint %} This may not instantly strike you as an incredible!!!... right now, as you sit at the same desk as the WLAN Pi. BUT now imagine your WLAN Pi is away from you, on a customer site perhaps, with very little effort you can enable communication with it as though it were local to you. ## Access somebody else's WLAN Pi via Tailscale One potentially *super useful* feature of Tailscale is 'device' sharing, this will allow you to 'share' your WLAN Pi access via Tailscale with another Tailscale user. 1. On your laptop, navigate and login to Tailscale 2. Find your WLAN Pi 3. Share your WLAN Pi with your DeepDive neighbour 4. Once your neighbour has accepted the invitation, test that connectivity is possible 5. Finally, revoke your neighbour's access ### Alternative VPN provider If Tailscale is not doing it for you, we suggest giving ZeroTier a try (similar idea) {% embed url="" %} --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://userguide.wlanpi.com/hardware/wlan-pi-pro-eos/getting-started/remote-access.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.